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Instructors guide students through yoga classes like aerial, restorative, Vinyasa, and Flow and Hold, which focuses on alignment

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Three Things to Know About Yoga

Few
fitness disciplines meld relaxation and strength-building like yoga.
Read on to learn about its surprising origins and incredible diversity.

1.
In Sanskrit, yoga means “union.” (The word shares a root with the
English word “yoke.”) The things being united are the mind, body, and
breath, as practitioners use motion to guide the thoughts toward
peaceful awareness and away from the funny-looking dog walking past the
studio window.

2. Historically, strength and flexibility were
probably just side benefits. In fact, some of the first Indian yogis
to arrive to the U.S. explicitly rejected asanas, or postures, as a
distraction from meditation. Recent research by yogi and scholar Mark
Singleton indicates that, starting in the 1920s, a Scandinavian fitness
system known as Primitive Gymnastics became wildly popular in India, and
began to meld with far older yoga traditions that were more concerned
with breath and focus. Around the same time, other teachers in India
traveled the country teaching strengthening and combat techniques under
the guise of yoga, in the hopes of preparing to rise against British
rule. This complex stew of influences eventually produced the blend of
movement and meditation most Westerners recognize as yoga today.

3.
Today an estimated 20–30 million North Americans practice yoga. What
that looks like in practice is wildly diverse—everything from sweaty,
tolerance-testing hot yoga to quick-flowing vinyasa yoga to “laughter
yoga,” which combines yogic breathing with deliberate laughter to ease
stress. One of yoga’s greatest virtues is its adaptability: props make
classes accessible to older students, and prenatal classes teach
pregnant women poses that take into account their extra-stretchy
ligaments and tendency toward lower-back pain.